Bottle-capping machine.



B. ADRIANCE n A. CALLESON. BOTTLE GAPPING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 11, 190B. 91 3 182, Patented Feb. 23, 1909. 7 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

Aira/Mft @Ti z W/T/VES ES B. ADRIGE 1 A. GALLESON.

BOTTLE GAPPING MACHINE. APPLIOATION FILED 111111.11, 190s.

Patented' Feb. 23, 1909.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

WIT/VESSEL? B. ADRIANCB & A. CALLESON.

BOTTLE GAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.11, 1908.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 3A W/T/VESSES,

ATOR/VEY B. ADRIANCE L A. GALLESON. BOTTLE CAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.11, 190e.

A91 3, 1 82. Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

B. ADRIANGE & A. CALLESON.

BOTTLE CAPPING MACHINE. APPLIUATION FILED 11116.11, 1908.

Patented Feb. 23. 1909 7 SHEETS-SHEET 5.

W/T/VESSES Muff/vrees,

ATTORNEY B. ADRIANGE da A. CALLESON.

BOTTLE OAPPING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 11, 1908.

9 1 3, 182, Patented Feb. 23,'1909.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 8.

5. me w e WITNESS/:"8

B. ADRIANCE & A. GALLESON.

BOTTLE GAPPING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 11, 1908.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 7.

UNITED STATES PAeTENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN AnR-IANOE AND AMos oALLEsoN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK; SAID OALLEsoN AssIGNoR To sAm ADRIANO/E.

BOTTLE-CAPPING MACHINE.

To allywhom it may concern.'

Be it known that we., BENJAMIN ADRIANOE and AMos CALLEsoN, citizens of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, Brooklyn borough, New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle- Capping Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to 'characters of reference marked thereon, which forni a part of this specification.

' This invention relates izo bottle sealing machines and the like and it consists in certain improvements wherehy the operation of closing or sealing bottles or the like is considerably simplified and expedited, the manual labor required resolving itself merely into the workman moving the bottles to and away from the sealing position.

The salient features of the invention are the means whereby the closures, contained in a suitable receptacle, are fed to the Osition for sealing incorrect relation witii respect to the mouths of the bottles; the means whereby the bottles and caps are brought into sealing relation to each other, such means being so constructed and adaptedto operate that varyinV heights of bottles are compensated for; an the means whereby the means aforesaid are made to cooperate with each other in the orderly worlfing of the machine.

The invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

wherein,

.Figure 1 is a side view of the im roved machine; ligy2 is a plan view of t e table of `th'e machine with the head thereof and certain other parts removed and others brole'n awa Fig. 3 shows a detail of Fig. 2, illustrating the bottle guide which coacts with a certain turret in the positioning of the bottles for the sealing o eration; Fi 4 is a vertical sectional view t 1e plane of t e bolts e in lig. 2'; a fragment of the base of the 5l( head beingzshown and certain parts appearing in elevation; Fig. 5 shows a detail of the turret appearing in Ei s. 3 and 4; lig. 6 is a l view s., owing the cap ceding mechanism detachefh and the upper portion thereof approximately in central vertical section in the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 11, 1908. Serial No. 447,968.

Patented Feb. as, 1909.

plane of the shaft 99;,Fig. 7 is a side view, enlarged, of the* cap feeding mechanism with the ca selecting and rectlfying mechanism thereo removed; Fig. 8 is a front view Iof what is shown in Fig. 7; lliig. 9 is a rear elevation of the art of the cap rectifying mechanism whic I is bolted to the front face of the portion of the feeding mechanism shown in igs. 7 and 8; liig. 10 is a front view of what is shown in Fig. 9; Fig. 11 is a rear view of the rotating member ofthe cap rectifying mechanism; leig. 12 is a sectional view of the cap rectifying mechanism approximately on the line x-x of Fig. 10, and showing how a cap roperly disposed therein will he passed thereby; llig. 13 1s a fragment of what is shown in l' ig. 12 showing how a cap improperly disposed therein will be rejected or checked thereby; i"ig. 14 shows a detail of the cap rectifying mechanism, illustrating one of the deilector lates; lligs. 15 and 16 are a side view an a sectional view on lino @/-y of l'fig. 14, respectively, of what is shown in ll'ig. 14; figs. 17 and 1S are vertical and horizontal sectional views, respectively, of the rack and inion part of the means for oscillating the roc t shaft ofthe cap feeding mechanism; l'ig. 19 shows one of the sealing-heads and a certain block 123 in section in a transverse vertical plane through the vertical axis of the sealing-head, and also a modified form of the cap-holding block which is pivoted to block 123, said cap-holding block appearing in front Velevation with its front corners brol'fen away hack to certain recesses 130 therein. lig. 19u is a side elevation of the sliding plug of the sealin head; l'ig. 20 is a vertical central sectiona view Of a slitted flanged ring shown in Pig. 19; liff. 21 is a view showing, in plan, the capholding block appearing in lf ig. 19, and, partly in section, a fragment of the corresponding chute of the feeding mechanism; Fig. 22 is a plan view of a cli shown 1n ligl 21, and fig. 22a a sectiona view on line z-z of lig. 22; ,Eig 23 is an underneath view of what is shown in Eig. 6; lig. 24 is a view in front elevation of the lower part of the machine, showing principally the mechanism for elevating the bottles to the sealing position; Fig. 25 is a view artly in side elevation and partly in centra vertical section, of what is shown in Fig. 24; Fig. 26 is avieW, artly in side elevation and partly in central) vertical section, enlarged, of the BISSUED bottle elevating means shown in Fig. 24 Fig. 27 is a horizontal sectional view taken through one of the stems x and just above the corresponding pawl 12 in 1Eig. -26; Fig. 28 shows in front elevation, partly in section, a part of the mechanism whereby the opra tion of the machine is controlled from the manually rotated bottle turret; Fig. 29 shows a fragment of one member of a certain clutch in lan; lig. 30V shows said clutch member an other parts connected therewith in side elevation; lig. 31 shows the clutch mechanism in horizontal central section from beneath; and, llig. 32 is a detail of said clutch" mechanism, illustrating a certain bolt 26.

a is a rectangular frame surmounted by the table l), the table having secured. to it substantially centrally thereof by bolts c the head d; the lower portion of the head is surrounded by a Babbitt metal ring e between which and a boss f which directly supports the head an annular turret g is disposed, so as to rotate on the cross-sectionally circular base h of the head. This turret has a lateral flange 'i and a circular series of downwardly projecting ratchet teeth j, there being as many such teeth as there are intermittent rotary advances necessary to turn the turret through one complete cycle of movement, it being re.- marked that the turret is turned by hand intermittently by the attendant and that this is the only part which it is required for him to operate. radial slots le receiving the threaded studs l of the carriers m, the carriers being held in place by the'nuts n; each carrier has the vertically flanged portion 0 receiving a block p which is vertically slotted to receive and fit it (Fig. 5) and which may slide up and down thereon, its slot being covered at both ends by the plates g and r secured against the top and under faces of the block. The blocks'p are suitably recessed to receive and fit a bottle A they are normally depressed, but are capable of moving up with the bottles when the same are raised or for the purpose of access to a certain member which coperates with the teeth In the machine illustratedl there are eighteen of the blocks p, and the attendant moves three bottles at a time into the sockets afforded by the blocks and turns the turret clockwise in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2 until the bottles stand in front of the turret. The filled or unclosed bottles stand on the table at the right of the turret, and as the bottles are sealed they #are moved to the left of the turretvA curved wall/s, integral with the table, extends from the turret to the right and left thereof, serving to prevent the bottles from being pushed 0H the back of the table. In order to prevent action of the turret, the left hand The turret flange i has wall s may have ,pivoted to it a spring actuated pawl t which projects within the circle of movement of the ends of the blocks p, coperating therewith to check the back action of the turret while allowing its advance movement. gers u carrying the elastic pads u are arranged in the arc of a circle concentric with the axis of the turret in front of the latter, the same being movable vertically in bearings w in the table, These plungers carry the downwardly extending stems x, each vertically grooved at the front and receiving avertical strip 'y which is fixed to and depends from a stationary cross bar z secured in the frame a, in front of the stems x. Toothed racks 1 are let into each stem x one at each side of the stri y.

The fra-me a as the vertical web 2 formed with vertical parallelribs 3 against which are bolted strips 4 producing with saidribs opposed guide-ways for a vertically movable thrust block (Rigs.v 24, 25 and 26) comprising front and rear members 5 and 6 bolted together. Bores 7 are formed vertically in the upper part of the thrust Three cylindrical plunfrv block, the same being lined with fiber 8 or cept resistance overcomes the friction in-l duced. The frictional action may be adjusted by means of set screws 9 bearing@ i. v

against springs 10 arranged in the front part 5 of the thrust block and bearing against the front fiber pieces 8. On a pi'nll in' part 5 are pivoted the pawls 1,2 having their upper ends toothed or otherwise formed so as to engage with the racks 1 in the corresponding stems x, the points of the pawls being held inwardly by spring ressed plugs 13 arranged in part 5 and caring against the toes 14 of the pawls. Each strip 'y has its lower front face formed with an elevation 15. When the thrust block rises its frictional engagement with the stems causes it to raise the plungers until the resistance from above, exerted'by the properly positioned caps on the bottles resting on the pads u, becomes so great that the plungerswill no longer partake of thel rising actionv of the thrust block, wheref upon the pawls, which approximately to this time have been held out of engagement with the toothed racks 1 by the elevations 15 of the strips y, are now, having moved,

above said elevations, permitted to move into engagement with said racks and from now on positively continue the remaining upward movement of the plungers. When the thrust-block returns it of coursey draws the plungers x down with it until each plunger implnges against the cross-bar z, which.

thus serves to level-up the plungers and l readjust them with respect to the thrustblock preparatory to the next sealing y,or closing operation.

The thrust block is reciprocated as follows: A pin 17 connects its members 5 and 6 and on this is pivoted one end of a pitman 18 the other end of which is pivoted to the crank pin 19 of a crank 20 on a shaft 21 which is journaled in the back of the machine and in a bracket 22 depending from the web 2. On this shaft is keyed a clutch member 23 onto which is shrunk a band 24 having` a hump 25 and thus making the clutch member also a cam. In this clutch member, parallel with its axis, is arranged a longitudinal sliding bolt 26normally held with its right hand end in Fig. 31 projecting from the "corresponding 'face of the clutch member by a splral spring 27 in a bore 28 in the bolt, said spring being interposed between the end of the bore and the head of a stem 29 which in turn abuts against a disk 30 interposed between the bearing 22 and the clutch member. Between the bearing for shaft 21 in the ba'ck of the frame and the clutch member 23 is arranged a gear 31 iixed on a sleeve 32 which rotates on shaft 21 and has its rear end formed as a pinion 33'. The hub 34 of the gear has on its face adjoining the clutch member 23 the blbks or teeth 35, making said hub a clutch member complementary to clutch member 23. The gear 31 meshes with apinion 36 fixed on the drive shaft 37 which -is journaled in bracket 22 and the back of the frame a and which carries a pulley 38 which rotates freely on the shaft under the drive of its belt (not shown) but may be made to assume a fixed relation to .the shaft by a suitable clutch 39 operated by a lever 40 having a pull 41 which extends towardk the front of the machine. So long as the clutch 39 transmits power from pulley 38 to shaft 37, (which is constantly, under the normal working of `the machine) the gear 31 will be rotating; and so long as the bolt 26 occupied its normal position, interlocking the clutch members, the thrust block would be reciprocated.

But the thrust block only 'moves up and down once for each intermittent advance of the turret, and this is effected as follows:

`A bracket 42 is bolted to the web 2 and on a stud 43 projecting therefrom is fulcrumed a lever 44 g this lever comprises an extension 45 which projects through an opening 46 in the table at one side of the turret, being adapted, when its upper end is engaged by one of the teeth on the turret, to abut 4against a stop 47 formed by the forward side ofthe opening 46, and this extension is normally held up in the path of the teeth y' bya spiral spring 48 arranged in the lever 44 and bearing against a stud 49 on the extension 45, which is -guided in a longitudinal bore 50 of the lever 44. The lever 44 has its upper end normally pulled to the right as shown in Fig. 25 by the spring 51 conneetin it with the frame `and it-s lower left han corner has a notch 52 adapted to receive the upper right hand edge of a lever 53 which is fulerumed on a stud 54 projecting from bracket 22 and is normally pulled upwardly by a strong spring 55 connecting it with web 2. The lever 53 has a depending portion 56 adapted to withdraw the boltv 36 from engagement with clutch member 34 when the bolt, rotating with clutch member 23, engages part 56, said part 56 at that time wiping against an inclined surface 57 formed in a recess 58 in thebolt. Lever' 53 carries at its rear end an anti-friction roller 59 adapted to be engaged by the hump 25 for the purpose of resetting lever 53 in the position where it is locked by lever 44 with its portion 56 ready to withdraw the bolt 26. On the stud 54 is also fulcrumed a lever 60 carrying an anti-friction roller 61 at one end and at its other end being connected with the extension 45 by a link 62. Thus, when the attendant places three bottles in the position indicated by the dotted outline thereof in Fig. 2 and turns the turret through one-sixth ofa revolution to bring the bottles on the pads Q, one of the teeth engages extension 45 of lever 44, rocking the latter until extension 45 engages the stop 47 lever 53 is thus tripped and releases the bolt 26, so that parts 23 and 34 are clutched together and shaft 21 rotates and thus causes a rise and fall of the plungers u. During the rising and falling movement of the plungers, the bottles have had their caps attached, by the mechanism to be described. As the hump 25 on clutch member 23 sweeps around, it engages the rollers 59 and 61, thus resetting lever 53 (which is locked in this position by the lever 44) and vibrating lever 60 so that its extension 45 is drawn downwardly momentarily, rising again under the tension of its spring as soon as the hump clears roller 61. Then the extension 45 rises, it does so back ofthe tooth which last caused the oscillation of lever 44, so that the turret is again free for another advance, for the purpose of removing the bottles just closed and bringing into position three 'other bottles to be closed. Meanwhile, clutch member 23 continues to rotate until its bolt again wipes against the y portion 56 of lever 53, whereupon it is withdrawn, the clutch members are unlocked and' y vance the bottles in the turret to the sealing position; each such advance causes the discharge `or removal of bottles last previously closed. A guide for the bottles may be formed by a plate 62 pivoted in the levers 63 fulerumed in a bracket 64 bolted to the table and having their lower ends pressed i outwardly by spiral A'spring 65, in such Inan- `for the slide 85.

ner that the upper ends of the levers, and

hence the plate 62', are normally forced in the direction of the head d.

Secured to the front of the head d, over the pads e, by bolts 66 penetrating slots 67., is an upright 68 which carries at its upper end a casting 69 (see Figs. 6, 7 and 8). This casting is formed with abearing 70 in which and a bearing 71 in a hopper 72 carried by the casting, is journaled a horizontal shaft 73 which is rocked by the following means. A pinion 74 is fixed yon shaft 73 and freely arranged on the shaft is a guide 75 which retains a rack 76 in engagement with the pinion and allows the rack to oscillate with reference to the shaft (Figs. 17 and 18). This rack forms the upper end of a pitman 77 which at its lowerend is connected to a crank pin 78 on a face plate 79 fixed on a shaft 80, journaled in frame a, which carries a gear 81 meshing with the pinion 33.

The casting 69 has at the back a wall 82 forming the front wall of the hopper and leaving an opening 83)at the front lower ortion of the hopper, so that the caps W ich are placed in the hopper will by gravity find their way throughM the opening 83. The front of the casting 69 has a vertical groove 84 in which is set a slide or carrier 85 substantially shaped like an open rectangular box, with its open side out and its top surface 86 inclined downwardly. This slide is covered by another box 87 open at the back, top and bottom, said box 87 forming a guide The casting has the pro-l jecting ribs 88 and 89, the latter diverging upwardly from the box 87, as shown in Fig. 8. A sheet metal lining piece 90 having its upper end of dove-tail form and fitting between the ribs 89 and its upper extremity turned back over the box 87 and there formed with an opening 91, corres ending in size to the end elevation of the the front of the box 87.

side 85, is arranged between the slide and The slide carries at its upper end a coupling 92 to which is connected a chain 93attached to the grooved pulley 94 on shaft 73. Thus, in the oscillations of the shaft the slide, which falls until its top surface 86 alines with the bottom surface of opening 83, will intermittently elevate the caps which will accumulate on it in its depressed position, causing them to be discharged through the opening 91 forwardly on account of the incline of the surface 86.

Against the ribs 88 and 89 is bolted the substantially circular plate 95 'shown in rear elevation in Fig.' 9 and in front elevation in Fig. 10. This plate has an opening 96 at the top through which the caps raised by the slide 85 fall, the lower side of the opening having a rearwardly projecting lip 97 andI below the lip a ledge 98. This late further carries the stub shaft 99 on w ich is *journaled a disk 100. The front face "of the plate 95 has a groove 101 following the arc of a circle described about the shaft 99. The rear face of the disk 100 has a circular rib 102 which mates with the groove. Referring to Figs. 12 and 13 it will be seen that the deepest part of the groove adjoins its outer perimeter. A cap located between the disk and plate can pass through the downwardly sinuous course formed between them bytheir mating rib and-groove only when its' open and wider side is to the front. A cap having its open side face to the back could not being then at the back, the cap cannot take the bend formed in the passage; it therefore rests with its periphery on the shoulder 103 at the outside of the groove. Caps which thus fall off the ledge 98 between the disk and late with their open sides to the front fall c wnward between them, into the chutes to be described those facing with their open sides to vthe back are rejected or checked at the bend formed in the passage afforded between the plate and disk, to be rectified by the following means;

A ball or the like 104 is-arranged in the disk in such manner as to project through the rib portion thereof, being held in lace by a plate spring 105', two other such alls 106 are shown in Fig. 11, (but omitted in Fig. 6), their function being to co erate with the ball 104 principally to stea y Ythe disk. The disk is rocked from shaft 73 by means of a belt 107 extending around the pulleys 108 and 109, on the hub of the disk and the shaft 73, respectively, and, the space between the disk and plate being kept well occupied with caps by the slide 85, the rocking disk agitates the' caps and tends to raise the upper one adjoining its rib and force them under defiector plates 110 which are secured to plate 95 over slits 111 through which the caps are designed to pass. ln this action, the disk is more or less positively assisted by the ball 104, the deflector plates 110l being formed with slits 112 to admit the bal.

113 is a deflector on each plate 110 formep to -enter the slit 111 and to direct the caps through said slits. Below the slits 111 and further from the center of the plate are other slits 114 through which the caps reenter between the plate 95 and disk 100. The back of the plate 95 is formed with curved projections 115 extending from the bottom of the slits 111 to the top of one of the slits 114, and each of these is covered by a similarly curved piece 116 which is secured to the plate and thus forms with the part 115 a guideway for the caps; the curved piece 116 may have cast therewith a plate '.117 whjich will givethe guidewaya third side, that is, since the parts are so constructed and arranged that the guideways pass because its Wider diameter a are oblique, each plate 117 will constitute the bottom vof the guideway. It will be apparent, in view of the foregoing, that caps forced into the guideway through slits 111 and passing through the same and leaving by the slits 114 will be reversed or rectified. They-will then be ada ted to fall between the plate 95 and the dis unchecked thereby. 1The casting 69 is recessed at 118 to receive the guides referred to. f

A cross piece 119 is secured to the casting 69 and depending from it are three chutes 120; the passages in these chutes coincide with three openings 121 which are formed in a flange 122 on plate 95 preventing the escape of any of the caps from between the late and disk except at the openings. hese chutes are deflected inwardly at the bottom, as shown in Figs. 6, 21 and 23 and each terminates in a block .123 to which is pivoted another block 124 provided with spring actuated clips 125 arranged at both sides of an opening 126 in block 124 to receive the bottle mouths, said clips being f 25 adapted to hold each cap squarely over the bottle mouth; it will be understood that the weight of the .caps in they chutes presses the lowest cap within the grip of the cli s. In lieu of the ca -holding means afforded y '30 block 124 and c ip 125 we may employ the cap-holding means shown in Fig. 19, where the block 127 has clips 128 arranged on parallel axes in opposing relation to each other and formed with opposed jaws 129 to receive the caps upon discharge from the chutes; the back flat face of each jaw is impinged against by a' plate spring 130 each set at an incline in a recess 130 in the side of the block, the jaws thus yielding verti- 40 cally to the passage of the bottle head. Above the block 123, which may be secured to the part 68 by the bracket 131, and spacing art 123 from ar`t 68 is the socket 132 of t e sealing hea the stem 133 of which 4extends into the part '68 and is held therein by set screw 134. set screw 135, between which and a sliding lug 136.is interposed a spiral spring 137. ifhe plug 136 is guided in a slittedfianged ring 138 set in the socket 132. Against this ring bears the ring 139 having an internal annularly arranged series pf sockets 140.

In these sockets are fulcrunied the 'aws 141, each jaw being arranged in a slit o the part 138, one end thereof being engaged by the j plug 136 and the other 'end thereof projectmg downwardly and being adapted to bend the flange of the bottle cap into interlocking relation with the shoulder B of the bottle v head. .As ythe bottle is raised-by the mechanism already described and its mouth impinges a ainst, a cap lheld in the jaws of clips at te corres onding chute 12( the cap is thrust upwar ly against the jaws 141 which are engaged in the'plug 136. If the In the bore of the stem isl height of any bottle requires it, the friction grip member in the bottle elevating means will allow the plunger carrying said bottle to yield relatively to the elevating means. Ultimately, the pawl of the particular elevating means will engage the rack thereof and effect a positive upward movement of the plunger with the friction grip member. In the' present adaptation this positive movement of the plunger is mainly operative on the jaws 141 the same being moved on their fulcrums to effectively clam the caps on the bottles A; but we do not Wish to be limited to the employment of such means, inasmuch as it is apparent that the frictionso grip can be adjusted so that a sufficient loc ring of the cap to the bottle may be acquired by the friction-grip alone, depending, of course, upon the qualities of metal employed in the caps, the degree of pressure in the bottles, etc., such friction-grip in that instance performing the double service of effecting compensation for varying bottle heights and sealing. By employing the friction-"grip to effect the com ensation, the operation is not subject to tie danger attending the use of a spring or the like which practice hasr demonstrated is likely to cause the fragments of glass on the breaking of a bottle to be dispersed with great force.

We are aware that it is old to bring frictional action to play in the sealing of bottles or the like by a conical or other inclined surface directly or indirectly operating upon the flange, say, of the closure. We are also aware that it is old to check the compensating yield of one of the members whereby the body and closure parts of'a container are brought into closed relation by means in the nat-ure of a cam `operating frictionally, but without slip, on such member. Our invention distinguishes from the former of these in that it involvesa grip-action operative in compensating for varying heights of containers rather than in the affixing operation, per se, and from the latter in that the grip-action characterizing our invention is oneywhich is a sli -friction grip-action normally operative uring the working thrust to oppose the longitudinal movement of the part subject to such action relatively to the member affording it. Having thus ully described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. In a machine for afhxing the closure part to the body art of a container, the cominationv of an a 'Xing means, and means for effecting the movement of one of said parts into contact with the other, comprising a 125 slip-friction gri -member normally operative during the wor ing thrust to oppose the longitudinal movement of the container relatively to said member, substantially as des scribed. 130

2. In a machine for aftixing the closure part to the body part of a container, the comination of an aflixing means, and means for effecting a thrust-movement of the container relatively to the aflixing means comprising a container-support and a slip-friction gri member normally operative during t e working thrust to oppose the longitudinal movement of the contalner-support relatively to said member, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for establishing the body and closure parts of a container in closed relation, the combination of a'container-support, and aslip-friction-grip support-elevating member'normally operative during the working thrust to oppose the longitudinal movement of the container-support relatively to said member, substantiall as described.

4. In a machine for estab ishing the body and closure parts of a container in the closed relation, the combination of a containersupport, a slip-friction-grip support-elevating member normally operative during the,

working' thrust to oppose thev longitudinal movement of the container support relatively to said member, and means for limiting the downward movement of the contamer-su port with said member, substantially as described.

5. In combination, a means adapted to take the thrust ofthe container, moving` means adapted to effect the thrust, one of said means comprising members assuming the resistance of the container and having the one a slip-frictionTgrip on the other, and mechanism for positively interlocking said members upon a predetermined amount of yield of one member relatively to the other.

6. In combination, with the frame, a means adapted to take the thrust ofthe container, moving means adapted to effect the thrust, said moving means comprising members assuming the resistance of the container and having the one a friction-gri on the other and also having the one a rac and the other a pawl, said pawl being normally adapted to engage the rack, and a. part carried by the frame and acting to hold said pawl unengaged with the rack duringl a part of the movement of said moving means, su-bstantially as described.

7. In a mechanism for'delivering articles having relatively limited thickness in such manner that the articles will :only issue from said mechanism with their corresponding faces similarly disposed, a selecting mechanism comprising members having substan-J y tially parallel walls spaced approximately a distance apart corresponding with the thickness of the articles and having the one agrib `and the. other a groove mating with each other and forming a bend in the space-between said members, and one of sald members being movable substantially in the direction of the lengthof said ribvand groove, substantiallyv as described.

8. In a mechanism for delivering articles having relatively limited thickness in .such manner that the articles will only issue from said mechanism with their corresponding faces'similarly disposed, a selectingmechanism comprising members having substantially parallel walls spaced approximately ya distance'apart corresponding with the thickness of the articles and having the one a rib and the other a groove mating with each other and forming a bend in the space between said members, and one of said members being movable substantially. in thev direction of Y the length of said rib and groove, and a projection on the movable member located substantially at the bend, substantially as described. l

9. In a mechanism for delivering articles having-relatively limited thickness in such manner that the articles will only issue fromA said mechanism with their corresponding faces similarlyldisposed, a rectifying mechanism comprising members spaced approximately a distance apart corresv onding with thethickness of the articles an having portions forming a bend n the space between said members, one of said memberslbeing revoluble substantially in/,fits own plane, and the other member having outlet and return openings therein for the articles, and means,

communicating with said lo enings, for reversing the articles checke substantially as described. ,J l 10. In a mechanism-for delivering articles having relatively limited thickness-in such at saidbend,

manner that the articlesj.will only issue from v y said mechanism With their corresponding facessimilarlydisposed, a rectifying mechanism comprising members spaced approximatelyy a dlstance apart corresponding with the thickness of the articles an having por-l tions forming a `bend in the s ace between said members, said bend exten ing in the arc of a circle, and one of said members bein revoluble concentrically with said bend all having a rojecting device ada ted to agitate the artic es checked at said end and the other member having outlet. and return openings therein for the articles and the formerbeing in the path of movement of said agitatingdevice, andmeans, coperative with the revoluble member, forreversing the articles checked at-said bend, substanl tially as described.

11. The combination of a suitable support, a drivingpart, a driven-part, a member adapted to interlock said parts and normally standing in the interlockmg relation, a device movable into and out of thepath of rotary movement of said member. with the driven part and ada ted to causeand maintain its withdrawa yfrom the interlocking position, mechanism adapted to operate upon the containers and actuated from the driven part and means, comprising a movable container-receiving part, for controlling the position of said device, substantially as described.

12. In a machine substantially of the character described, a supply for the articles having an inclined supporting surface for the articles, a device movable up and down across the plane of said surface and having an inclined supporting surface, and means for confining the articles on the surface of said device while` the same is being moved, said means having a discharge for the articles on the side adjoining the low end of its inclined surface, substantially as described.

13. The combination, with a supply hopper for. the articles having a lateral discharge, of a vertically reciprocating carrier having an inclined supporting surface for the articles, and vertical means, communicating with said dischargey of the hopper, for confining the articles on said surface of the carrier during its vertical movement.

In testimony, that We claim the fore oing, we have hereunto set our hands this St day of August, 1908.

BENJAMIN ADRIANCE. AMOS CALLESON.

Witnesses:

JOHN D. STEWARD, JAMES VAN WICKLIN. 

